Stobbe, Andreas
Andreas Stobbe was born in 1968.
He is a digital entrepreneur and designer.
In the 1990s, he founded his own company during his studies. Since 1996, he has been working in the digital field. In the same year, he founded the company reality bytes. This company became one of the top 50 internet companies in Germany. From 2016, he sold parts of his company to the TWT Digital Agency Group. This group belongs to the Greven Group and the Irene and Sigurd Greven Foundation. Until 2024, he merged his company with other companies, forming TWT Growth, which now has more than 120 employees.
Andreas Stobbe has a son with autism. He is committed to improving learning opportunities for people with disabilities, especially in making world literature accessible to them.
Krause, Patrick
Dr. Patrick Krause (born 1965) is a journalist, author, and publisher.
"Writes like Charlie Parker plays," said Dr. Wolfgang Stock from Econ Verlag.
During his philosophy studies, he worked as a copywriter. After his Ph.D. in 1998, he founded his own publishing company for customer magazines, worked as a journalist, ghostwriter, and creative director, and wrote travel guides and children's books. From 2010, Krause was a culture editor and from 2015, editor-in-chief of the lifestyle travel magazine QVEST.
Simultaneously, he completed several therapy and coaching training courses. His openness and diverse interests led Patrick Krause around the world and to well-known interview partners. Often, pure curiosity turns into passion, an idea, and a text. Krause plays drums in workshops with professional musicians and hopes for numerous gigs in his old age.
Fontane, Theodor
From April 1844 to March 1845, he served in the military. At the end, he was a sergeant. During this time, he made a trip to England.
In March 1847, Fontane worked at a pharmacy in Berlin. He also fought as a revolutionary on the streets. During this time, he wrote four articles for a Berlin newspaper. Later, Fontane worked at the Bethanien hospital.
He wrote his first story in 1839. He also wrote poems. He joined writing clubs in Leipzig until 1865, which brought him recognition.
On September 30, 1849, Fontane quit his job as a pharmacist to focus on writing. He wrote political articles for a newspaper in Dresden. That year, his first book "Men and Heroes. Eight Prussian Songs" was published.
In 1850, Fontane married his fiancée. Fontane and Emilie moved to Berlin. He initially struggled to find work and they had little money. In 1851, they had a son. Their next three sons died as babies. They had a total of five children.
From 1851 to 1865, Fontane worked for the "New Prussian Newspaper". The newspaper sent him to London as a journalist. He lived there from 1855 to 1859. He was the first to report to Germans about the Pre-Raphaelites, a new art movement.
In 1858, a new king came to power in Prussia. Fontane hoped for more freedom and returned to Berlin. He couldn't find a new job at a newspaper, so he wrote about travels. In 1861, he published the book "County of Ruppin". A year later, a second edition titled "Wanderings through the Mark Brandenburg" was published.
In 1864, Fontane traveled to Copenhagen to write about wars. From 1870, he wrote about theater. He then went to Paris, where he was mistaken for a spy and imprisoned. He wrote a book about this experience.
From 1874 to 1876, Fontane traveled with his wife to Austria, Italy, and Switzerland. After that, he only wrote books, which caused problems in his marriage.
In 1892, he became very melancholic, possibly due to too much morphine. His daughter Martha took care of him. He wrote three more novels and some autobiographical works. Theodor Fontane died on September 20, 1898, in Berlin.
